Breakouts
Welcome to the race.
The big don’t eat the small — the fast eat the slow. Innovation isn’t slowing down, so the question isn’t really why accelerate, but how? The intelligent edge is a top strategic trend for IT. And at Insight, we believe it has the potential to help your organization eat the slow. Our Accelerate expert speaker series will tell you how, starting with this welcome note from Insight President North America, Joyce Mullen.
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Presented by:
Joyce Mullen
President, Insight North America
“Intelligent Edge”: More Than Buzz, Less Than Reality
Why edge? How can it help organizations achieve their goals? Brian Hopkins, Forrester Research VP, Principal Analyst Serving CIOs, shares the latest findings from Forrester Research about the changing trends of intelligent edge, IoT and cloud strategies.
Presented by:
Brian Hopkins
VP, Principal Analyst Serving CIOs, Forrester Research
Technical breakouts
Each breakout session is between 20-50 minutes and can be watched in any order.
Democratize Edge
Why edge, and why now? This breakout explains the technical components and configurations of intelligent edge to understand the high level architecture and specific use cases for intelligent edge in manufacturing, agriculture, retail and healthcare.
Presented by:
Amol Ajgaonkar
Senior Manager of Intelligent Applications, Digital Innovation, Insight
Cloud Agnostic Intelligent Edge
With intelligent edge, some data processing happens on-site — but this doesn’t eliminate the need for a well-thought-out centralized data processing center that may be best served from the cloud. Here, we’ll share our recommendations for an intelligent edge cloud architecture.
Presented by:
Ben Kotvis
Chief Architect, IoT, Insight
The Network Is the Edge
Anywhere operations requires secure, seamless connectivity and communication — and that’s where the modern edge comes into play. We’ll show you how you can evolve your network perimeter with modern edge to better support business operations and digital innovation.
Presented by:
Rob Parsons
Practice Director, Network and Integrated Security, Cloud + Data Center Transformation, Insight
Jeremy Nelson
Director of Services, Cloud + Data Center Transformation, Insight
Extending Your Data Center to the Edge
Get ready to build. Designed for architects, this session walks you through the end-to-end design of intelligent edge infrastructure and IoT architectures to be resilient, scalable, extensible, secure and operationally efficient.
Presented by:
Andrew Nelson
Principal Architect, Cloud + Data Center, Insight
Daren Westman
Cloud Solutions Architect, Cloud + Data Center Transformation, Insight
The Intelligent Edge Journey From Idea to Scale
C-level leaders and technical experts will benefit from this breakout as we walk through specific use cases of intelligent edge, from ideation to deployment. You’ll also learn a practical process for getting started and scaling up your own intelligent edge initiative.
Presented by:
Amol Ajgaonkar
Senior Manager of Intelligent Applications, Digital Innovation, Insight
Juan Orlandini
Chief Architect, Cloud + Data Center Transformation, Insight
Maintaining a Secure and Updated Intelligent IoT Edge
What’s the difference between an intelligent edge device and a standard IoT device? In this breakout, we review the basics of intelligent edge (it’s a place, not a thing) and share our best practices for managing intelligent edge devices in the enterprise.
Presented by:
Joe Flynn
Director of Technical Architecture, Connected Workforce, Insight
Chris McCoy
Product Manager, Services, Connected Workforce, Insight
Q&A panel discussion
Forrester analyst Brian Hopkins and our leading technical experts answer questions we’ve received about intelligent edge — from how it’s evolved from IoT to how it’s benefiting our clients today (and how those use cases could be replicated for your own business goals).
The Q&A Panel consists of:
Matt Jackson (Moderator)
VP, Services, Digital Innovation National Solutions, Insight
Amol Ajgaonkar
Senior Manager of Intelligent Applications,
Digital Innovation, Insight
Brian Gatke
Director, Connected Workforce Client Services, Insight
Brian Hopkins
VP, Principal Analyst Serving CIOs, Forrester Research
Juan Orlandini
Chief Architect, Cloud + Data Center Transformation, Insight
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Joyce Mullen
President, Insight North America
Joyce joined Insight in October 2020 as our North America President. Prior to joining Insight, she worked at Dell Technologies for 21 years as president, global channel, embedded and edge solutions, leading various roles, including sales, operations, supply chain, partner strategy, services delivery and logistics. Joyce earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated from Brown University with a degree in International Relations. Prior to Dell, she worked at Cummins Engines for nine years as EMEA logistics director, plant manager and director of international customer support. Today, Joyce is building upon Insight’s solution areas by leveraging her channel expertise and proven leadership in delivering solutions and services to clients.
Brian Hopkins
VP, Principal Analyst Serving CIOs, Forrester Research
Brian’s research helps clients drive innovation through emerging technology to get ahead of trends and become leaders in their markets. His thought leadership also assists CIOs in maximizing the returns on their investments and future-proofing their business against the accelerating pace of change. He is routinely covered in major trade journals, such as the Wall Street Journal, CIO.com, and ZDNet, where his ideas challenge technology leaders to think differently to get better results. His coverage of technologies includes edge computing, edge intelligence, quantum computing, insight and big data platforms, and systems of insight. He is a contributing author to the insights-driven business playbook and the IT transformation playbook. Finally, he leads Forrester's annual top emerging technologies and top technology trends reports, making him the first touchpoint for firms looking to get ahead with new technology.
Matt Jackson
VP & National General Manager, Digital Innovation, Insight
Matt is a relentless problem-solver who is passionate about delivering solutions that help clients build better businesses. He sees challenges as opportunities to push the boundaries and pave the way for technological innovation. Matt builds on extensive experience managing consulting organizations to steer Insight's Digital Innovation practice toward operational excellence.
Juan Orlandini
Chief Architect, Insight
Juan is the chief architect for the Cloud + Data Center Transformation division of Insight. He’s a 30-plus year veteran of the IT industry, during which time he has designed and deployed enterprise computing, storage, data protection, virtualization and hybrid cloud solutions. Juan evaluates next-generation technologies for Insight and also works with enterprise clients, assisting them in architecting and selecting strategic roadmaps. In his current role, Juan sits on the partner advisory boards for a number of our top strategic partners, helps lead our solution architect team and acts as a technical liaison within our multiple divisions. Juan is passionate about next generation technologies — both in the data center, cloud and in the consumer market space.
Brian Gatke
Director, IT Services Practice, Sales and Delivery, Insight
Brian uses his more than 20 years of IT and end-user services experience to help organizations connect their workforce and transform their end-user support strategies.
Amol Ajgaonkar
Chief Architect for Digital Innovation, Insight
Amol has more than 15 years of experience successfully implementing technology for business outcomes. He specializes in architecting and implementing IoT solutions using Azure for manufacturing and other industry segments. Amol has also worked with Microsoft Azure Sphere to embed security into cloud-connected devices to enable clients to focus on creating new products and services.
Joe Flynn
Director of Technical Architecture, Connected Workforce, Insight
With more than 20 years of industry experience, Joe focuses on the Microsoft stack of technologies to help clients keep up with the workplace technology curve. His expertise revolves around the latest cloud tools that drive collaboration, communication and security.
Ben Kotvis
Chief Architect, IoT, Insight
Ben has spent the last several years building IoT solutions for residential, agricultural, manufacturing and heavy machinery applications. Writing software in .NET, he works to solve business problems by introducing automation and building robust, cloud-based applications. He’s passionate about delivering value to his customers as well as building solutions where scaling and performance are part of the design from the first line of code to go-live.
Chris McCoy
Product Manager, Services, Connected Workforce, Insight
Chris McCoy is a product manager with Insight’s Connected Workforce team, where he works to design and build specific service offerings to enable and deliver mobility and endpoint management technologies to Insight’s clients. Chris has more than 20 years of technical solution sales and product management experience working for companies such as Dell Technologies, Lenovo, Parallels and Insight. Although Chris has a broad knowledge of many areas of technology, he has specific expertise in end-user computing, client virtualization and VDI.
Andrew Nelson
Principal Architect, Cloud + Data Center, Insight
Jeremy Nelson
Director of Services, Cloud + Data Center Transformation, Insight
Jeremy is a multidisciplined solutions architect with extensive experience in networking technologies, including projects in network design and implementation for international enterprises. He leverages his experience in cross-discipline technology fields to ensure Insight services and solutions deliver effective, efficient results for our clients — and drive value for the business.
Rob Parsons
Practice Director, Network and Integrated Security, Cloud + Data Center Transformation, Insight
As a member of Insight’s technical leadership practice organization, Rob plays a key role in defining solution offerings, as well as in creating custom solutions for large-scale and high-profile clients. His focus is on automation, flexibility and scalability while ensuring architectural security in an executable fashion.
Daren Westman
Cloud Solutions Architect, Cloud + Data Center Transformation, Insight